Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• 2025

  • Ockelmann, J., Scherpiet, S., Stropahl, M., & Giroud Rickenbacher, N. R. (2025). Personalized and gamified auditory-cognitive training improves naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in older adults with hearing loss Npj Science of Learning, 10(1), 80. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00369-4
  • Elmer, S., Frei, V., Ockelmann, J., & Giroud, N. (2025). Breaking down the ear-brain dichotomy: the effects of age-related hearing loss on the cortical language system NeuroImage, 322, 121563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121563
  • Mikos, A., Fartdinova, N., Seifert, A., Giroud, N., & Riese, F. (2025). Association of hearing and vision impairment with cognitive impairment in nursing home residents in Switzerland European Journal of Ageing, 22, online. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-025-00880-y
  • Vyshnevetska, V., Giroud, N., Ramon, M., & Dellwo, V. (2025). Listeners are biased towards voices of young speakers and female speakers when discriminating voices Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 10(1), 28. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-025-00636-3
  • Frei, Vanessa; Giroud, Nathalie (2025). Immersive auditory-cognitive training improves speech-in-noise perception in older adults with varying hearing and working memory npj Science of Learning, 10(1):12.
  • Frei, V., & Giroud Rickenbacher, N. R. (2025). Presenting Natural Continuous Speech in a Multisensory Immersive Environment Improves Speech Comprehension and Reflects the Allocation of Processing Resources in Neural Speech Tracking Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 37(11), 2126–2144. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02306

• 2024

  • Bolt, Elena; Kliestenec, Katarina; Giroud, Nathalie (2024). Hearing and cognitive decline in aging differentially impact neural tracking of context-supported versus random speech across linguistic timescales PLoS ONE, 19(12):e0313854.
  • Sarant, Julia; Lemke, Ulrike; Giroud, Nathalie; Scherpiet, Sigrid; Weinstein, Barbara (2024). Promoting hearing and cognitive health in audiologic rehabilitation for the well-being of older adults International Journal of Audiology, 63(10):761-771.
  • Bolt, Elena; Giroud, Nathalie (2024). Neural encoding of linguistic speech cues is unaffected by cognitive decline, but decreases with increasing hearing impairment Scientific Reports, 14(19105):19105.
  • Bolt, Elena; Giroud, Nathalie (2024). Auditory encoding of natural speech at subcortical and cortical levels is not indicative of cognitive decline eNeuro, 11(5):ENEURO.0545-23.2024.
  • Dörig, Patrick; Giroud, Nathalie (2024). Presbyacousie, existe-t-il un entrainement?
  • Frei, Vanessa; Schmitt, Raffael; Meyer, Martin; Giroud, Nathalie (2024). Processing of Visual Speech Cues in Speech-in-Noise Comprehension Depends on Working Memory Capacity and Enhances Neural Speech Tracking in Older Adults With Hearing Impairment Trends in Hearing, 28:1-20.

• 2023

  • Elmer, Stefan; Giroud, Nathalie (2023). Simultaneous interpreting, brain aging, and cognition Translation Cognition & Behavior, 6(2):118-140.
  • Dörig, Patrick; Giroud, Nathalie (2023). Schwerhörigkeit im Alter der informierte @rzt, 13(11):25-28.
  • Schwab, Sandra; Giroud, Nathalie (2023). Analysing speech perception In: Zufferey, Sandrine; Gygax, Pascal . The Routledge Handbook of Experimental Linguistics. London: Routledge, 1-16.
  • Schmitt, Raffael; Meyer, Martin; Giroud, Nathalie (2023). Improvements in naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in middle-aged and older adults after 3 weeks of computer-based speechreading training npj Science of Learning, 8(1):32.
  • Elmer, Stefan; Kurthen, Ira; Meyer, Martin; Giroud, Nathalie (2023). A multidimensional characterization of the neurocognitive architecture underlying age-related temporal speech processing.
  • Al-Yawer, Faisal; Pichora-Fuller, M K; Wittich, Walter; Mick, Paul; Giroud, Nathalie; Rehan, Sana; Phillips, Natalie (2023). Sex-Specific Interactions Between Hearing and Memory in Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment: Findings From the COMPASS-ND Study Ear and Hearing, 44(4):751-767.
  • Elmer, Stefan; Schmitt, Raffael; Giroud, Nathalie; Meyer, Martin (2023). The neuroanatomical hallmarks of chronic tinnitus in comorbidity with pure-tone hearing loss Brain Structure & Function, 228(6):1511-1534.
  • Giroud, Nathalie; Seifert, Alexander (2023). Vermindertes Seh- und Hörvermögen im stationären Pflegekontext NovaCura, 54(4):66-68.
  • Elmer, Stefan; Besson, Mireille; Rodriguez-Fornells, Antoni; Giroud, Nathalie (2023). Foreign speech sound discrimination and associative word learning lead to a fast reconfiguration of resting-state networks NeuroImage, 271:120026.
  • Neuschwander, P., Schmitt, R., Jagoda, L., Kurthen, I., Giroud, N., & Meyer, M. (2023). Different neuroanatomical correlates for temporal and spectral supra‐threshold auditory tasks and speech in noise recognition in older adults with hearing impairment European Journal of Neuroscience, 57(6), 981–1002. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15922
  • Schwab, Sandra; Mouthon, Michael; Jost, Lea B; Salvadori, Justine; Stefanos‐Yakoub, Ilona; da Silva, Eugénia Ferreira; Giroud, Nathalie; Perriard, Benoit; Annoni, Jean‐Marie (2023). Neural correlates of lexical stress processing in a foreign free-stress language Brain and Behavior, 13(1):e2854.

• 2022

  • Kurthen, Ira; Christen, Allison; Meyer, Martin; Giroud, Nathalie (2022). Older adults’ neural tracking of interrupted speech is a function of task difficulty NeuroImage, 262:119580.
  • Schmitt, Raffael; Meyer, Martin; Giroud, Nathalie (2022). Better speech-in-noise comprehension is associated with enhanced neural speech tracking in older adults with hearing impairment Cortex, 151:133-146.
  • Schwab, Sandra; Mouthon, Michael; Salvadori, Justine; Silva, Eugenia Ferreira da; Yakoub, Ilona; Giroud, Nathalie; Annoni, Jean-Marie (2022). Neural correlates and L2 lexical stress learning: an fMRI study In: Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, 23 May 2022 - 26 May 2022, Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG).

• 2021

  • Kliesch, Maria; Giroud, Nathalie; Meyer, Martin (2021). EEG Resting-State and Event-Related Potentials as Markers of Learning Success in Older Adults Following Second Language Training: A Pilot Study Brain Plasticity, 7(2):143-162.
  • Rehan, Sana; Giroud, Nathalie; Al-Yawer, Faisal; Wittich, Walter; Phillips, Natalie (2021). Visual Performance and Cortical Atrophy in Vision-Related Brain Regions Differ Between Older Adults with (or at Risk for) Alzheimer’s Disease Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 83(3):1125-1148.
  • Giroud, Nathalie; Keller, Matthias; Meyer, Martin (2021). Interacting effects of frontal lobe neuroanatomy and working memory capacity to older listeners' speech recognition in noise Neuropsychologia, 158:107892.
  • Kurthen, Ira; Galbier, Jolanda; Jagoda, Laura; Neuschwander, Pia; Giroud, Nathalie; Meyer, Martin (2021). Selective attention modulates neural envelope tracking of informationally masked speech in healthy older adults Human Brain Mapping, 42(10):3042-3057.
  • Gullifer, Jason W; Kousaie, Shanna; Gilbert, Annie C; Grant, Angela; Giroud, Nathalie; Coulter, Kristina; Klein, Denise; Baum, Shari; Phillips, Natalie; Titone, Debra (2021). Bilingual language experience as a multidimensional spectrum: Associations with objective and subjective language proficiency Applied Psycholinguistics, 42(2):245-278.
  • Sauppe, Sebastian; Choudhary, Kamal K; Giroud, Nathalie; Blasi, Damián E; Norcliffe, Elisabeth; Bhattamishra, Shikha; Gulati, Mahima; Egurtzegi, Aitor; Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina; Meyer, Martin; Bickel, Balthasar (2021). Neural signatures of syntactic variation in speech planning PLoS Biology, 19(1):e3001038.
  • Isler, Benjamin; Giroud, Nathalie; Hirsiger, Sarah; Kleinjung, Tobias; Meyer, Martin (2021). Bilateral age-related atrophy in the planum temporale is associated with vowel discrimination difficulty in healthy older adults Hearing Research, 406:108252.
  • Giroud, Nathalie; Pichora-Fuller, M K; Mick, P; Wittich, W; Al-Yawer, F; Rehan, S; Orange, J B; Phillips, N A (2021). Hearing loss is associated with gray matter differences in older adults at risk for and with Alzheimer’s disease Aging Brain, 1:100018.

• 2020

  • Giroud, Nathalie; Baum, Shari R; Gilbert, Annie C; Phillips, Natalie A; Gracco, Vincent (2020). Earlier age of second language learning induces more robust speech encoding in the auditory brainstem in adults, independent of amount of language exposure during early childhood Brain and Language, 207:104815.
  • Schwab, Sandra; Giroud, Nathalie; Meyer, Martin; Dellwo, Volker (2020). Working memory and not acoustic sensitivity is related to stress processing ability in a foreign language: An ERP study Journal of Neurolinguistics, 55:100897.

• 2019

  • Giroud, Nathalie; Keller, Matthias; Hirsiger, Sarah; Dellwo, Volker; Meyer, Martin (2019). Bridging the brain structure – brain function gap in prosodic speech processing in older adults Neurobiology of Aging, 80:116-126.
  • Pryss, Rüdiger; Schlee, Winfried; Reichert, Manfred; Kurthen, Ira; Giroud, Nathalie; Jagoda, Laura; Neuschwander, Pia; Meyer, Martin; Neff, Patrick; Schobel, Johannes; Hoppenstedt, Burkhard; Spiliopoulou, Myra; Langguth, Berthold; Probst, Thomas (2019). Ecological Momentary Assessment based Differences between Android and iOS Users of the TrackYourHearing mHealth Crowdsensing Platform In: 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Berlin, Germany, 23 July 2019 - 27 July 2019, IEEE.
  • Meyer, Martin; Keller, M; Giroud, Nathalie (2019). Suprasegmental speech prosody and the human brain In: Frühholz, Sascha; Belin, Pascal . The Oxford Handbook of Voice Perception. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 143-166.

• 2018

  • Giroud, Nathalie; Lemke, Ulrike; Reich, Philip; Bauer, Julia; Widmer, Susann; Meyer, Martin (2018). Are you surprised to hear this? Longitudinal spectral speech exposure in older compared to middle-aged normal hearing adults European Journal of Neuroscience, 47(1):58-68.
  • Giroud, Nathalie; Hirsiger, Sarah; Muri, Raphaela; Kegel, Andrea; Dillier, Norbert; Meyer, Martin (2018). Neuroanatomical and resting state EEG power correlates of central hearing loss in older adults Brain Structure & Function, 223(1):145-163.
  • Jagoda, Laura; Giroud, Nathalie; Neff, Patrick; Kegel, Andrea; Kleinjung, Tobias; Meyer, Martin (2018). Speech perception in tinnitus is related to individual distress level - A neurophysiological study Hearing Research, 367:48-58.
  • Kliesch, Maria; Giroud, Nathalie; Pfenninger, Simone E; Meyer, Martin (2018). Research on second language acquisition in old adulthood: What we have and what we need In: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta . Third age learners of foreign languages. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 48-76.

• 2017

  • Kegel, Andrea; Giroud, Nathalie; Meyer, Martin; Dillier, Norbert (2017). Differences in Supra-Threshold Auditory Function in young and elderly normal hearing Adults In: 20. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Audiologie, Aalen, 22 Februar 2017 - 25 Februar 2017, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Audiologie e.V..
  • Giroud, Nathalie; Lemke, Ulrike; Reich, Philip; Matthes, Katarina L; Meyer, Martin (2017). Longitudinal auditory learning facilitates auditory cognition as revealed by microstate analysis Biological Psychology, 123:25-36.
  • Giroud, Nathalie; Lemke, Ulrike; Reich, Philip; Matthes, Katarina L; Meyer, Martin (2017). The impact of hearing aids and age-related hearing loss on auditory plasticity across three months – An electrical neuroimaging study Hearing Research, 353:162-175.
  • Giroud, Nathalie . Dynamics of electrophysiology and morphology in older adults with age-related hearing loss 2017, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.